Frame tubing question

[retrobloke]

Thanks for the replies everyone

 

[PeterPerfect]

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I have one of these.

Very rare with the frame and forks.

They sold in very low numbers as Reynolds 853 in MTBs had not long been marketed which was the death knell for small individual makers.

It's great and attracts comments.

You have to get up pretty close to appreciate the tubing though.

 

[Tateandpo]

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This place is a mine of information. That twisted tubing is unusual and Looks great.

 

[fettler]

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Colnago Conic SLX I think was a pioneer. Tail end of the eighties. About ten years ago Colnago made a similar thing with external corkscrew type tubes. I remember seeing one in DemonTweeks.

 

[Ride604]

Tange made a spiral tubing like that. I know Kona used it on their flagship MTB in the early nineties. I have a weak spot for unusual tubing. I love my Colnago Conic SLX, as it was the first bike to have an expanding downtube. Love my lugged Gilco-tubed Cinelli MTB too. Two bikes I'll have 'til I die.

 

[Rampage]

Tange made a spiral tubing like that. I know Kona used it on their flagship MTB in the early nineties. I have a weak spot for unusual tubing. I love my Colnago Conic SLX, as it was the first bike to have an expanding downtube. Love my lugged Gilco-tubed Cinelli MTB too. Two bikes I'll have 'til I die.

The 1993 & 1994 Explosif had a ribbed down tube not a spiral.

 

[mk one]

Ultrastrong.

 

[velomaniac]

I remember the Byers Cycles tourers but in reality they just seemed to be old rigid mtb reclassified as tourers. Maybe they were some of the tange spiral butted frames mention above.

 

[kermisking]

Oria of Italy made a tube set like this featured on some Ciocc/Conti frames . I will see if I can find a picture and tube label . It was a road spec tube set so perhaps not seen on MTB/ tourers.